[Qt-interest] Windows 7 Style not showing?

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

On 2010-11-09 Scott Scott Aron Bloom wrote:

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> It may required the windows dev  SDK to be installed

That's correct, these are the (minimum) requirements: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/requirements-win.html.

When I used to build Qt with Visual Studio 2005 Express myself (on Windows XP Home) I seem to remember having to install some "XP SDK" as to get the "XP Style" plugin. But I can't remember the exact details where I got that from (some Microsoft Development site, I guess), and whether that was really a separate download. The "Windows Platform SDK" might also be sufficient, but I remember it was a hazzle to choose the right one, as to compile for Windows 2000, XP AND Vista.

I think I really ended up with the one pointed at from here: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/requirements-win.html ("Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK")


But then again, you might also want to try the "latest Windows SDK", as available from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/bb980924%28en-us%29.aspx

The link https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6b6c21d2-2006-4afa-9702-529fa782d63b&displaylang=en

mentions the following requirements: "Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7;Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition;Windows Server 2008;Windows Server 2008 R2;Windows Vista;Windows XP Service Pack 3"

That is you definitively loose support for Windows 2000 (the SDK 2003 R2 still supports that one). But then again, I understand that Qt itself dropped official support for Windows 2000 quite some time ago already ;)


So: try to compile with the "latest Windows SDK" and see whether that makes a difference?

Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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